Contra Costa is now reporting 353 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 46 more than yesterday.
The county has also confirmed there have been five coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
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Xi Corona Virus was spread by communists during the Year of the Rat!
So far, Contra Costa County has the lowest number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations (2.7), patients in the ICU (1.1) and deaths (0.42) per 100,000 residents for any Bay Area county.
Big bump was the Nursing Home in Orinda, I drove by Muir ER (Concord), no one in the waiting area, the testing tents at the County Hospital (Martinez) had no one there ?
Thanks for the update Gebertx. I drive by the Muir/Concord ER and the parking lot has been sparse for a couple of weeks. Nice but not any wheres near as dire as projected.
Oh, well, we waited a few days and nobody’s there! Must be a hoax. The earth is flat, because I looked out my window today and it looked pretty flat…. right?
I like to look on the more positive side of this, the recovery rate.
Which is not posted.
Looking at local and national averages the recovery rate looks more optimistic than a lot of sources would leave one to believe.
Hospitals all over the country are empty. More fear based people wanting tests but not needing hospitalization are what media using to scare the public. Complete hoax
Have you noticed the way the government medical experts avoid the questions on Hydroxychloroquine? There have been numerous small tests for months and they know how they have turned out. New York has been testing over a thousand people for over a week. They know if people are getting better or are dying at the same rate as elsewhere by now but they are still say it is going to take a couple of more months. I trust Trump and Pence but I don’t trust bureaucrats any farther than I can throw them. They are a bunch of liars.
The reason these Government Medical Experts are avoiding the question on Hydroxychloroquine, because they have some financial gain in pushing for the vaccines that Bill Gates has invested and pushing for. Now sweet Bill Gates is asking for us to be under lock-down for another 10 days…….FOLLOW THE MONEY
The medical experts use EVIDENCE BASED SCIENCE in order to evaluate the efficacy of a drug therapy.
It takes months to make that assessment. Not a week.
For example, in clinical drug trials, Phase 1 revolves around figuring out the toxicity of the drug and what the proper dosage should be. Believe it or not, that takes a lot of time.
Furthermore, Trump and his propaganda clowns at Faux News wont ever tell you anything about the side-effects of Hydroxychloroquine…. one of which is irreversible damage to the retina of your eye if taken in high doses over the long-term.
You trust Trump and Pence and the rest are liars. LOL, oh my.
Mike: First, I quit satellite long ago and don’t get what you call Faux news so don’t assume. I go to the Fox website but have not read anything about that drug there that I recall. The drug you mentioned has been around for a very long time and approved by the FDA. You mention potential side effects but looking at the drug’s website it says the eye issue is “rare” and can be spotted early with visits to an eye doctor. For someone who is over 80, the mortality is 18% according to the first Google search I looked at. I believe that an elderly person would be much better off risking hydroxychloroquine than coronavirus. Beyond that, who are you to tell people what they should or should not be doing with their own health? Who appointed you our spiritual advisor? You want to be in the position of denying my very elderly relatives potentially life-saving drugs because you want to wait for what you consider a controlled experiment. Thanks but no thanks for your opinion.
Mike Wagner says,
“It takes months to make that assessment. Not a week.”
In the meantime thousands die.
Not one place where it was tried reported deaths.
Doctors are prescribing it to themselves to prevent getting the virus.
India a country that has tons of it, a country that has crowding worse than NYC has fewer deaths than California. They refuse to send us Hydroxychloroquine. Why would that be Mike? That is how they hold down the infections and deaths.
You can remain a Trump hater. If you should be unfortunate enough to get the virus make sure they don’t give you
Hydroxychloroquine. If you should die you can die happy that you kept up your hatred to the bitter end.
Alamolocal
Only thing I can tell you is stay tuned, or maybe get tuned in.
Unfortunately they have only tested 4,929 people in a county of over 1.2 million. So there are a lot more than 353 people infected. They have just scratched the surface. This is why staying at home to slow the spread is so important!
“So there are a lot more than 353 people infected.”
One may also conclude that there are a lot more who were infected and recovered. Logic works in mysterious ways.
@To Do List and Ricardoh:
I’m sorry to burst your Trumpian “bubble” that you live in but a study just published in a French medical journal provides new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X20300858?via%3Dihub
It’s also interesting to note that the combo of hydroxychloroquine with the antibiotic azithromycin which had gained a lot of attention after a study on 80 patients had been published on March 17th out of Philippe Gautret in Marseille, France was done on patients who only had mild symptoms. Furthermore, 85% of these patients didn’t even have a fever – – – thus suggesting that these patients likely would have naturally cleared the virus without any intervention.
Moreover, one of the side-effects of this hydroxychloroquine / azithromycin combination is on the QT intervals of the heart. This drug combo prolongs the QT interval, which can lead to arrhythmia issues and sudden death.
https://www.dicardiology.com/article/covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-treatment-brings-prolonged-qt-arrhythmia-issues
JUST THE FACTS.
Like I said Mike if you get the virus make sure they don’t give you Hydroxychloroquine.
Don’t confuse people with the facts. Especially Trumpster’s.
Mike: No, I had not seen that study. It is interesting that they came to potentially different conclusions but in either case just because there were positive results in one I can easily say it should be tried on a much larger population. If I were 85 and got coronavirus I would be happy to volunteer and I do not believe it should be up to you to judge. What I find extremely disturbing is your anti-intellectualism believing science or tests are to be put through your political filters first. You seem to believe, correct me if I’m wrong, that if someone is in favor of using the malaria drug then they are supporting Trump in some way? If Trump had originally come out against the malaria drug I guess you would be in favor of it. Neither coronavirus nor the French researchers could care less about Trump, and your political beliefs should not impact an 85 year old’s medical treatment. Your anti-intellectualism and zealotry should not impact other peoples medical care.
Hanne
You of all people should not be talking about confusion.
Congratulations Hanne. You managed to put a reply where it belongs. A broken clock is right twice a day.
@ To Do List,
Youre biggest problem is that your reading comprehension is very poor. I’ve never suggested that I am the one to “judge” who receives a certain drug or not. I am simply pointing out the FDA clinical process, which you obviously have no understanding of.
On another note, you repeatedly deflect and spin when faced with factual evidence. And if anything, you are the one experiencing anti-intellectualism, not me. Perhaps you should look up the definition?
I’m simply dealing in FACTS from clinical studies.
You’re not dealing in anything other than deflection and “spin”.
Mike, I keep getting told that in this unprecedented crisis I can’t go out of my house without a good reason. Yet somehow standard FDA testing MUST be done on a drug ALREADY approved by the FDA and that has shown at least some promise? You don’t get to have it both ways.
BTW, you used “youre” and “your” in the same sentence with the same intent. Perhaps not the best time to criticize others’ reading comprehension.
Rollo, just what do you think I’m confused about. I will be happy to add that I know, or hear them on the radio, that also is so dug in to there position that they cannot acknowledge facts.
@ To Do List,
PS. If you knew anything about how the FDA works, there is no one keeping anyone from taking Hydroxychloroquine. The FDA has no control over how doctors prescribe drugs. Doctor’s can clearly prescribe hydroxychloroquine for what is called “off-label” use. In fact, 1/5th of all prescriptions are “off label”.
But of course, given your posts you knew nothing about this.
Nothing at all.
@ Rollo
The FDA doesn’t “approve” a drug based on “having shown at least some promise”.
BTW the drug also has shown some promise to treat many other infectious disease such as HIV, HCV or Ebola.
Rollo, That is because the reply button was under the comment I wanted to reply to, sometime it is not. How many times do I have to clarify this?
@Rollo,
You appear to be extremely confused about the simple FACT that the FDA has approved hydrochloroquine for malaria, but not for treating Covid-19… and that in the United States of America, we don’t approve drugs to combat disease just because they show “promise”.
I have.
And it can be quite toxic
@To Do List…..
Trump “hyping” hydroxychloroquine wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with three of his family trust’s having investments in mutual funds who’s biggest holding is French drug maker SANOFI, which makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine would it?
Stop being so gullible and naïve.
Follow the money!
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